source file: mills3.txt Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:35:33 +0100 Subject: Re: 60 vs 45 / GUITAR From: "Paul H. Erlich" >}The octahedra are actually kind of interesting as chords, >}almost like the Petrushka chord. > >Paul H. > >These octahedra are examples of the Wilson 2)4 [1,3,5,7] hexany. The hexany >(as it is called for short, usually without ambiguity) is perhaps Erv >Wilson's most famous creation. He probably envisioned it more as a scale than >a chord, the basic harmonies being the eight 7-limit triads it contains. > >And thanks for being a Paul with such a good reply to the message addressed >to Paul & All. It should have been addressed to All Pauls. > >P.S. > >I've been debating whether the next guitar should be 31-tone or fretless. >Although I have come up with some good ideas on the 22-tone, they're not >really decatonic so I might as well explore other tunings. A look at my >collected TDs found a reference to Erv Wilson teaching Star Trek actors to >sing hexanies with a 41-tone guitar. And of course we have a subscriber who >plays and teaches 53-tone. If these are playable, 31-tone should certainly >be, but this morning I tried to play a 5th-string-root E7b9 chord (or >thereabouts) on my 22-tone, and couldn't get the barre finger to stay within >one fret increment. Actually, both of my utonal tetrad fingerings use a barre >that lands on two different frets in two different places, taking advantage >of the natural way my index finger curves. As for the straight barre, I'm >sure it's just a matter of practice, but it seems like a 31-tone might just >make the problem insurmountable. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: John Starrett Subject: Re: Neil's Tuning CD Project PostedDate: 29-01-98 21:19:57 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 29-01-98 21:19:04-29-01-98 21:19:05,29-01-98 21:17:49-29-01-98 21:17:50 DeliveredDate: 29-01-98 21:17:50 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C125659B.006F9971; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:18:57 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01862; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:19:57 +0100 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:19:57 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01860 Received: (qmail 20639 invoked from network); 29 Jan 1998 12:19:10 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Jan 1998 12:19:10 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu